The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

and would not sell for even 5000 head.
AT Fresno, Cal, large numbers of
turkeys are raised annually, and some
farmers raise large focks which they
send out on ranches as insect cxter-
minators.
The California Legislature voted
$4,000 for the improvement of the
Yosemite valley. New trails will be
opened and the mountain streams
stocked with fish.
-Pastor-"Well, what did you young
people realize at your entertainment"
Member of the Committee-"We have
just realized that we are S25 out. -
Darlington Free Press
Among the rich of Japan it takes
three weeks to perform the marriage
ceremony, and the would-be groom is
kept under guard for fear he will get
discouraged and back out.-BroOkLyn
Eagle.
The value Of the cattle of this coun-
try is estimated by Commissioner Col
man at the large sum of 81, 200, 900, 900,
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these animals are four times the yearly
earnings of all the railroads of the
country.
A man entered drug store in
New York the other day and rang the
telephone bell and wanted to call up
the Mikado of Japan. He was called
crazy and put under arrest. Ten years
hence it will be seen that he was only
ahead of his date.-DetroH Free Press.
Walton Dwight, who died in 1873
at Binghamton, N. Y, had insurance
policies on his life amounting to $780,
900. The companies contested the
payment of these policies, alleging
fraud. Claims amounting to 100000
have now been settled by the payment
of $4,000.
Grand Cake: One cup of sugar,
one-half cup each Of butter, milk and
corn starch, one and one-half cups of
flour. two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, and the whites of four eggs.
Dissolve the corn-starch in the milk.
You can use the yelks if preferred and
save the whites for frosting. -Household.
There is in the French savings
| banks the sum Of 100,000,000 pounds
sterling. This alone shows what the
genius Of the country is-economy.
These savings banks are patronizcd
only by workmen, servants and small
shopkeepers. The peasant prefers in
vesting his savings in land and cattle.
Christian Union.
"A working man in Norfolk, Va,
fell about ten feet and injured his spine.
With some difficulty he went on with his
work for about eight months when he
became paralyzed and died. A post
norton examination showed that he
had lived eight months with broken
neck, third cervical vertebra being
fractured. Foote's Health Journal.
"A method of producing screw or
bolt which is adapted to receive nut,
having either a right or left-hand screw
thread, consists in forming blank
having two opposite arc-shaped por-
tons and intermediate fattened por-
tons, in cutting thread upon such
blank, and in subsequently chamfering
portions of the thread by means of dies.
Boston Budget.
According to the Boston advertiser,
the total number of sheep in the world
and their distribution are as follows:
South America, 100000 900; Europe,
PIP, 100000; Australasia, including New
Zealand, 100000 Africa, $4,000, 900;
Asia, $4,000. 900; United States, 45,000,-
900; Canada. 3,000.0 900; all other coun-
tries, 5000, 900, making a total of 517,-
o0O,000
-lce-water enemata are used with
success in the Birmingham General
Hospital in cases of collapse often seen
during diarrh9a in young children. 1t
is claimed that one injection, two or
three ounces, is very soon followed by
sleep, and that. by the astringent effect
on the congested vessels of the intes-
tines, the diarrhGa is diminished 1t is
further claimed that no depression or
other bad effect has resulted. Boston
Globe.
Recent surveys in the Pyrenees
prove that the Aran Valley is tributary
to the Garonne, and that south and
southeast of this valley are several
ranges nearly 10000 feet in height that
are not shown upon any map. But the
strangest discovery is that of lake,
the largest upon the northern slope of
the mountains, lying in gap between
two lines of peaks, which, having been
approached from opposite Sides had
previously been considered Identical
National Vicm.
-Rowley Patterson, an amateur as
tronomer of Dansvilie, N. Y. has
settled a question about which there
has been much discussion. He asserts
that on the day of judgement the solar
system will be fused into glowing,
nebulous mass. The wicked will be
cast into this somewhat torrid environ
ment, and the good will be transferred
to the planet Beulah. On this planet
the New Jerusalem. 10, 900 miles square,
is to be located This planet, for econ
omical reasons, has not yet been formed,